Friday, 28 November 2014
Thursday, 27 November 2014
REFLECTION ON 1.4 'SHARING IS CARING'
…Content curation, a process of sorting through a vast
amount of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized
way around a specific theme. It
involves… http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation
As a curator, I have learnt that other than being a
content consumer, I now know how to select the best content; I can make a
decision on what to take and what fits to my classroom setting, I can add in
some content to enrich my presentation, and am now the one to decide the mode
of presentation.
Only what is
relevant for a particular group will be selected and annotated to suit that
particular group. I have also learnt that I have to use much more reference
information and make sense out of it and then share what utmost suits the
class.
I feel confident of being a content curator because, I
believe in a changing technology, and therefore need to keep the eye at the
fore front towards getting the current trend of technology, consult necessary
sites and resource managers to harness the potential of ICT in my engineering
trade. I feel ready to integrate this skill in my profession and have the faith
that It will improve my training delivery to an extended period of service in vocational training.
Organizing and sharing of resources is of great value to
me because it actually abides by quality content, accurate details of reference
and such information is useful and can be easily referred to and by so doing it
boosts professional learning. The skill of searching, “screening” and sharing of
content that is needed is highly desired and is of great value. I cherish content
curation because it will enable me stay informed of the field am in.
This is the best tool to pass on valuable information to
a very big network because it does more of visualizing the page instead of only
saving links which can be mistaken; this guides the readers that may be of
little competence in searching for data.
I recommend content curation as the best mode and would
like all readers out there to open accounts with pinterest.
My curation site is http://www.pinterest.com/gilbliness/
The only challenge i found was that there is too much content that can not be read at a time i need to take time to analyse the sites i pinned.
Prepared by
Gilbert Niwamanya
Instructor.
Happy blogging.
Saturday, 22 November 2014
reflection on 1.3 "is it better at the movies?"
You tube is good for illustrations
and video based education and also presents a collection of educators. I was
able to follow most of them most especially in TED-ed.
One notes that this platform is one
of the biggest and best collections of videos on the internet.
I was able to explore through the
basics of making you tube channels, uploading videos. I liked the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMk1drkmSB8 introduction to you tube.
I was able to upload videos from my
laptop to my-you tube channel and then uploaded them to my blog. Repeatedly
this will enhance my professional learning because video illustrations are key
in visualizing instruction and makes science real.
Use of wiki space was so interesting
and a plus to my understanding because I had never used it and more so am now
familiar with URL.
To me the best resources were
observed in TED education and among others the following deserve mention.
I also created a play list
a) Sharing the facts of design;
b) Professional learning videos
c) Steam traps plumbing.
And I earmarked the interesting
videos to watch later. These include:
My video is leaf type drill jig at list has been published on my you tube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCENmQ9nYbuQFFL5kgtYgSWQ
1.
Basing
on my goal that I made in my blog…
“GOAL: TO
REALIZE PROOF OF CONCEPT THROUGH APPLICATION OF ICT IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING
INSTRUCTION.”
Am
explaining the concept of jigs and fixtures that is taught in theory to
practice thus proving the concept. I have by so doing integrated the existing
knowledge I had on design with the knowledge I have so far obtained from CCTI
i.e. using you tube platform, ICT equipment like You cam, how the educators
express themselves in videos and this is relevant to my trade.
2. My
professional learning is progressing, I was ably presenting ideas on video and
most importantly when I uploaded the video I saw related videos and have
highlighted them to watch later so that I expand my knowledge.
I was also
able to contribute to the development of criteria for evaluating a resource
site basing on the two sites that we were assigned i.e. TED education and Khan
Academy. Through watching videos I could subscribe and that makes me part of
the community henceforth.
3.
When
I evaluated the sites I visited, I was able to find the following.
a) Most of them had objectives they were
made,
b) Were giving accurate information,
c) Were clear and audible enough,
d) Could give reference for more
correspondences at a later time
e) And above all could address a certain
class of people others could fit best in young age, others middle age, and
others to researchers for example how a wound heals itself, the great brain
debate by Ted Alschuler among others.
I have tried to follow the above criteria while making
my video, by making it clearer, and improving my audibility, I have given the
name of the soft ware used to make the jig, and the core functions/objectives
why it is needed. Lastly, I gave the blogs incase one wanted to comment, and of
course this video suits only those working in mechanical production and
manufacturing sections.
4. A
special recommendation is given to the following I found in TED
Also
what part of the brain does a human use? Amused me.
I
SUBMIT.
By
Gilbert Niwamanya
Friday, 21 November 2014
syringe actuated mechanical arm
enjoy.
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